I’ve written a lot about Ursula Le Guin over the years. What reason could there be to write again? To celebrate her writing in the wake of her death. Considering she died this week I think it only appropriate to start with a photo of the books of hers we ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
Changing Planes by Ursula le Guin I picked up this book specifically because it’s Ursula le Guin, she’s written a lot of books and all the ones I’ve read have been very good, I found this was the odd one out and I should explain. Changing Planes is a series ...
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin I’ve been reading a lot of books and a lot of reference material but very little in the way of novels for the blog so you’ll have to be content with one of my textbooks instead. I have awesome textbooks, I ...
There is only one possible author for today’s article and that is Ursula K. Le Guin. Her books are from my childhood and so many other people’s childhoods. We’re talking the Earthsea Quartet and you can see the first book, The Wizard of Earthsea, in this photo. And then we’re talking ...
And here is the summary for female science fiction authors. I seem to have got it right this time and not missed a single letter. I’ll find some lucky male author for K for next week and add him into the summary before I make a final decision whether to continue with ...
Today I’ve ummm and ahhhed about which author to cover, I’ve opened far too many Wikipedia pages and gradually whittled them away to half a dozen only to then go through each author again until I finally only had two people. Do I go with Jean E Karl who edited ...
Jack Vance was one of the forerunners of modern science fiction, helping Michael Moorcock define the characteristic ambience of Science Fantasy and influencing many of the best writers in the science fiction/fantasy fields. Writers such as Jack L Chalker, Avram Davidson and Ursula K Le Guin, Michael Moorcock, George R. R. Martin and Gene ...
My brilliantly aptly named new series continues. Where I randomly select two books from my shelves and attempt to find a link. I do not promise it will be a good link, only that it will be a link. It might be anything at all. One thing I do promise is that ...
This series of three books proves why it’s good to attend things your friends are doing. My friend, Pete, mentioned on Facebook how he was going to be attending the latest ComixPo. I saw that and feeling it’d be a good time to catch up with him and some other ...
My brilliantly aptly named new series continues. Where I randomly select two books from my shelves and attempt to find a link. I do not promise it will be a good link, only that it will be a link. It might be anything at all. One thing I do promise is that ...
While browsing this morning I found this article on 50 Books Everyone Needs to Read, 1963 – 2013. It may be a good list, they may even be important books but I don’t know as I haven’t read any of them, there are two I might possibly have read but ...
Sometimes it’s possible to find treasures just by reading the publishing page in a book. I did this last night with a book I listed and found it had been published specifically to commemorate The 33rd World Science Fiction Convention held in Melbourne August 1975. Worldcons are held in different ...
My brilliantly aptly named new series continues. Where I randomly select two books from my shelves and attempt to find a link. I do not promise it will be a good link, only that it will be a link. It might be anything at all. One thing I do promise is that ...
My brilliantly aptly named new series continues. Where I randomly select two books from my shelves and attempt to find a link. I do not promise it will be a good link, only that it will be a link. It might be anything at all. One thing I do promise is that ...
On this day I really should be writing something about Carrie Fisher or Richard Adams, but my feelings are a bit raw at present. Instead I’m continuing on with my normal scheduled article and will revisit both of them at some later stage. It was not a good day to ...